This site will look much better in a browser that
supports web
standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet
device.

About Study Groups

The ESGI (European Study Group with Industry) is Europe's leading workshop
for interaction between mathematicians and industry.

These week-long workshops have been held annually since 1968 (originally
as the Oxford Study Groups with Industry) and attract leading
mathematicians to work on industrial (in a broad sense) problems.
The European Study Groups with Industry are organized by different
universities in Europe and similar weeks have been organised in
Australia (MISG), the States (RPI Workshop) and other countries.

Research workers from industrial and commercial concerns are invited to
present one of their current technical problems for study in working
sessions
with leading specialists from the academic community. Problems may come
from
a wide variety of subject areas, but should be amenable to mathematical
modelling and analysis. In a week of brainstorming and mathematical
modelling there is usually enough time to generate and reject many ideas
for
solving the problem, and usually some of the ideas are checked in more
detail. A full report of the Study Group's
work on the problem is produced after the meeting. Further research may
also be generated, for which the Study Group has already introduced the
company to interested academics.

In the past, problem areas have included processes
amenable to modelling by continuum mechanics, for instance
involving heat and mass transfer, fluid flow,
granular materials, electric fields, ranging to financial-derivative
pricing, and housing strategies, but in principal there are no
limitations to the types of mathematics used, or problem areas to
be tackled, by these workshops.

They have also served to establish links between university mathematics
departments and industry.